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Re: The Sound of a Comet...

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Here's a fun little tidbit:

The wavelength of 0.05 Hz is about 4 1/4 miles!
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MIDI Life Crisis wrote:Ok, we've officially hit bottom.
I'm glad you didn't post a picture with that. Apparently, it has been revealed the comet has the winning bid for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
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BobK wrote:Here's a fun little tidbit:

The wavelength of 0.05 Hz is about 4 1/4 miles!
Thanks for that. I was curious and had intended to calculate that but hadn't gotten around to it.
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bayswater wrote:
MIDI Life Crisis wrote:Ok, we've officially hit bottom.
I'm glad you didn't post a picture with that.
Actually, there's a new picture floating around of Kim Kardashian looking back over her shoulder that might have been appropriate. Search for Kim Kardashian / Paper, and you'll probably find it very quickly. (NSFW)

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Shooshie wrote:
bayswater wrote:
MIDI Life Crisis wrote:Ok, we've officially hit bottom.
I'm glad you didn't post a picture with that.
Actually, there's a new picture floating around of Kim Kardashian looking back over her shoulder that might have been appropriate. Search for Kim Kardashian / Paper, and you'll probably find it very quickly. (NSFW)

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Shooshie wrote:
bayswater wrote:
MIDI Life Crisis wrote:Ok, we've officially hit bottom.
I'm glad you didn't post a picture with that.
Actually, there's a new picture floating around of Kim Kardashian looking back over her shoulder that might have been appropriate. Search for Kim Kardashian / Paper, and you'll probably find it very quickly. (NSFW)

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That's the one. Yikes!!! Glad we didn't have to see that.
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Oopa, I see I'm WAY late to the comet party! I'd send you the Milky Way candy bar MLC, but I already ate it.

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Re: The Sound of a Comet...

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mikehalloran wrote:
BobK wrote:Here's a fun little tidbit:

The wavelength of 0.05 Hz is about 4 1/4 miles!
Thanks for that. I was curious and had intended to calculate that but hadn't gotten around to it.
Wouldn't that depend on the medium? I'm not sure exactly what medium we're looking at for the source of this sound. Magnetic field reversal/oscillation? Electromagnetic waves? That's way down there below infrared somewhere, sorta Baja-Infra-TijuanaRed.

Someone spot me while I lift this equation. If this frequency is 50/1000 hz, then only 5/100th of a cycle will be completed in a second. It takes 20 seconds to complete a cycle. Am I right so far?

Ok. If light travels at 186,000 miles per sec, and one wavelength of this particular radiation is happening in 20 seconds, then we have a wavelength of 186,000m/s x 20s, and that would be 3,720,000 miles. Right?
  • Electromagnetic Wavelength: 3,720,000 miles
If we convert that directly to sound at a 1:1 ratio, and sound travels at 1126 fps, at least on this planet it does, then 20 seconds for a single wave would give us a wavelength of 22,520 feet. That would be 4.26 miles.
  • Acoustic Wavelength on Earth = 4.26 miles
Anyway, if I got the input source correct, then our waves are pretty darned long, no matter whether it's sound or electromagnetic.

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Babz wrote:Oopa, I see I'm WAY late to the comet party! I'd send you the Milky Way candy bar MLC, but I already ate it.

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Re: The Sound of a Comet...

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Shooshie wrote:
mikehalloran wrote:
BobK wrote:Here's a fun little tidbit:

The wavelength of 0.05 Hz is about 4 1/4 miles!
Thanks for that. I was curious and had intended to calculate that but hadn't gotten around to it.
Wouldn't that depend on the medium? I'm not sure exactly what medium we're looking at for the source of this sound. Magnetic field reversal/oscillation? Electromagnetic waves? That's way down there below infrared somewhere, sorta Baja-Infra-TijuanaRed.
Yeah, I considered that the medium would probably make a difference, but didn't take it any further than that. I just plugged the .05 Hz into a web page frequency-to-wavelength calculator.

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Article in the Guardian, with some links to some interesting videos:
http://www.theguardian.com/music/tomser ... t-44004132

67P and the sounds of the universe
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It looks lonely.
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